Outdoor movies, concerts, and festivals have become hallmarks of Washington DC in the warmer months over recent years. It’s almost like the revolt against extreme air conditioning. One of the most relaxing and popular options has to be the Yards Park Concert Series, which kicks off on Friday, May 4 at 6:00 p.m with the […]
Yes, yes the Caps have advanced in the playoffs and the Nats are on fire but lets face it it really doesn’t affect your day to day existence does it? How about cocktails and performance art and fortune telling? Lots of fun things to do this weekend so why let’s get right to it shall […]
It’s West Virginia come to Washington, or at least that’s what planners of the Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival are saying about this Saturday’s free music festival, hosted on a 40-acre island on the Anacostia River. City leaders and Living Classrooms, an environmental nonprofit, brought the bluegrass festival to the island three years ago, […]
The Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA) Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale features new, rare and hard-to-find plants, and this year’s sale also includes more than 600 books on horticulture, garden design and designers, landscape architecture and garden travel from the library of longtime FONA board member and garden designer Sally Boasberg, who passed […]
Welcome back for another quick look at our best bets for you to get your rock on in the coming week. The pickings may look pretty slim this time around but that’s only because a one/two punch of Baltimore’s Lower Dens on 5/4 and Electric Guest on 5/5 at the Rock and Roll Hotel likely […]